Baison Manikon

Baison Manikon
Personal information
NationalityThai
Born (2001-11-07) 7 November 2001 (age 23)
Mueang Kalasin District, Kalasin Province, Northeast Thailand
Sport
SportBoxing
Medal record
Women's amateur boxing
Representing  Thailand
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou Middleweight
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Amman Light middleweight
Southeast Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Cambodia Middleweight

Baison Manikon (Thai: ใบสน มณีก้อน, born 7 November 2001) is a Thai boxer.[1] She competed in the women's welterweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[2]

In 2022, she became a presenter for Under Armour in Thailand.[3]

Biography

Manikon (nicknamed: cream) was born in the boxing and fruit trading family. Her father owned a small Muay Thai gym. As a child, she was debilitated from asthma and allergy illnesses, for this reason, she turned to boxing starting with Muay Thai with father as a trainer. When she was 10, she began to be a female amateur Muay Thai boxer patrolling various tournaments in the region. With versatility beyond age, therefore she was given the opportunity to compete in "Thai Fight" in the name of "Mungkornkhao Pollamai-Plaked Gym" (มังกรขาว ผลไม้ปลากัดยิม) under her father stable.

Later, she was persuaded to switch to amateur boxing from Somchai Poonsawat a technical director of Thailand Boxing Association, who has followed her in many bouts. The 2020 Summer Olympics was her first major tournament after only three years of amateur boxing.[4]

In the 2024 Summer Olympics, she competed in the women's 75 kg (middleweight) event. In the first stage (round of 16), she lost to Cindy Ngamba the EOR boxer with a landslide score of 0–5. She is the fifth Thai boxer to be eliminated out of a total of eight men and women.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Baison Manikon". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Boxing: Women's Welter (64-69kg)" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  3. ^ THE STANDARD TEAM (18 February 2022). "เบื้องหลังสังเวียนของ 'ใบสน มณีก้อน' นักมวยสากลหญิงทีมชาติ ที่ขอแลกหมัดกับทุกข้อจำกัด เพื่อคว้าทุก 'โอกาส' ที่มี [ADVERTORIAL]". The Standard (in Thai). Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  4. ^ Jamani, Jirawat (13 June 2014). "'ใบสน มณีก้อน' ก้าวข้ามกรอบเดิมสู่โอลิมปิกแรกด้วยวัย 18 ปี" ['Baison Manikon' spanned the original framework to enter the first Olympics at the age of 18]. STADIUM (in Thai). Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  5. ^ "เหลือใครบ้าง! 'ใบสน'ร่วงอีกราย เช็กชื่อนักชกไทย3คนสุดท้ายที่ยังอยู่บนเส้นทาง". Dailynews (in Thai). 31 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.